Long-Covid testimony, from my wife. Getting long-Covid or post-Covid or whatever will fuck up your life and is also not nice for your loved ones. Please read and consider: https://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/2023/05/this-is-not-over/
I was just out doing the family shopping at a crowded grocery store, almost nobody wearing a mask.
[Spreading the word on this would be a public service.]
@timbray I lost probably around 10 IQ points (it was 15 or 20 last time I did a test, and I am recovering year-by-year) and I also lost some memories which don't come back, even after reading old diaries.
But I'm one of the lucky ones. There are teachers who can't think and athletes who can't run.
Anyone remember watching Youtube/Physics Girl (Dianna Cowern)? She's struggling with the very basics of life.
People who hassle me for masking on the bus get told where to stick it!
@timbray Preaching to the choir here. I protected myself in public with an N95 respirator. I caught Covid at home from my mistress's sister who had had Covid, had waited 2 weeks and had then twice tested negative.
I can confirm Covid is nasty and that the effects though greatly diminishing are not completely gone even 8 months later.
Ignorance and arrogance are quite popular!
I still wear my masks, KN95s.
Hope they discover effective long-covid treatment soon!!
@timbray I’m still hit with bouts of deep fatigue. I report symptoms to my doctor, even if there’s not much they can offer in way of relief. At least it’s documented, for better or worse.
Brain fog/memory issues - check. I still consider myself lucky in that my job is almost 100% WFH now. Can’t imagine how I’d handle a commute into the city on a regular basis again.
@roland @timbray you should have. He would have learned something.
Even in a hospital mask wearing is spotty. Between the chin hammock, dick nose, or simply being handed a mask at the clinic after having walked through all these always / elevators.
(There are masks at the entrance too, just noone to force you)
@timbray My neighbor just emailed me she got COVID a couple days ago. She's having a hard time finding PAXLOVID. She called 5 pharmacies before she found it in stock.
I don't go anywhere without a mask on, even for a walk outside. It's been that way for 3 years. I won't eat indoors in a restaurant. I'll get take-out and bring it home.
So far, the only issues I've had with COVID have been the symptoms hit 6-12 hours after a booster. I still get chills and a mild fever.
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